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Padilla Gets 17 Years
littlegreenfootballs.com — Al Qaeda terrorist Jose Padilla has been sentenced today to 17 years in prison, and the Associated Press release drips with skepticism. MIAMI - Convicted terrorism conspirator Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive...
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- FritzKatz, on 01/23/2008, -2/+9Associated (with terrorists) Press.
Why can't a news agency just report the news and leave the snarky opinions for the opinion page. - Varchild, on 01/23/2008, -2/+6Great he gets to blow up something or someone with a dirty bomb 17 years from now. . . :-( *grumble*
- Verchiel77, on 01/23/2008, -3/+2Can't grumble now. Perhaps a different outcome could've been had if individuals in the government realized that "24" is only a tv show. This is exactly what happens when the government hypes sensational charges it can't remotely prove, throws a guy in a hole for years on end and only sticks him in another trial when it's about to get called out for its conduct:
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"Jose Padilla, detained as an enemy combatant for 3 1/2 years for allegedly plotting to set off a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to just over 17 years in prison on separate terrorism-related charges in Miami.
The sentence marks another major setback in a terrorism prosecution for the Justice Department, which had urged U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke to sentence Padilla to life for being part of an extremist cell that gave support to al-Qaida and other Islamic militant groups.
Padilla was abruptly added to the Miami case in late 2005 as the Supreme Court was poised to consider his legal challenge to his indefinite confinement in a military brig in South Carolina.
Cooke said she agreed with defense attorneys that Padilla had been subjected to "harsh conditions" and "extreme environmental stresses" in detention.
"I do find that the conditions were so harsh for Mr. Padilla ... they warrant consideration in the sentencing in this case," Cooke said, according to the Associated Press."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5476880 ...
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- Verchiel77, on 01/23/2008, -3/+2Can't grumble now. Perhaps a different outcome could've been had if individuals in the government realized that "24" is only a tv show. This is exactly what happens when the government hypes sensational charges it can't remotely prove, throws a guy in a hole for years on end and only sticks him in another trial when it's about to get called out for its conduct:
- stevebee, on 01/23/2008, -1/+9Why wasn't he charged with treason?
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